Cancer Medical Imaging Guidelines

The Central Cancer Network (CCN), in collaboration with clinical staff from the CCN region, is developing guidelines for medical imaging and reporting which are specific to the diagnosis, staging and surveillance of specific cancers.

Currently, New Zealand does not have agreed guidelines for the overall imaging of cancer patients, although there are guidelines available for certain individual cancers, e.g. breast.

The advisory group, as detailed below, agreed to use the UK Guidelines: ‘Recommendations for Cross Sectional Imaging in Cancer Management’ as the foundation for the development of Cancer MI Guidelines and have adapted them to meet a New Zealand context. These guidelines were disseminated to wider stakeholders in February 2010.

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